RESIDENTS of Aba, the commercial nerve centre of Abia State, have for long resigned themselves to the daily nightmare caused by the deplorable condition of roads in the town and its environs. This is because the problem is one that has defied whatever panacea applied by successive governments in the state.

If Mallam Bala Mohammed Dierba had known that cleaning the well in his compound will lead to the death of three persons, he surely would have changed his mind and dropped the idea. But being human with no ability to see into the future, except by divine revelation, he acted.

Lagos Island is still reeling from fear and disquiet following the violence that erupted there on Monday, February 20, as two rival groups of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, NURTW, battled for supremacy and control of the area.

Designed as a social network to keep up with friends, share ideas, photos, links and many more in the new information order, social media, according to findings is killing creative writings among students in both secondary and higher institutions.

Sometime last year, specifically in July, at about 7.30 pm, I heard distressed callfrom under the Bridge close to the Nigeria Brewery, I was not surprised tbecause I knew “the boys” were at their nefarious act again. I was helpless, there was virtually nothing I could do about it because I was not armed.

“Thank God the incident happened at the night, otherwise it would have been more tragic.” This was one of several comments made by road users at Mile 2, Lagos when a fully-loaded truck with Premium Motor Spirit PMS(petrol) suddenly skidded off the turning and crashed into a motor park, resulting in a fire outbreak that killed three persons and burnt 39 vehicles in the process.

BUT for divine intervention, Mr. Umar Abdullahi, a 53-year-old business man and farmer who resides in Jaligo village in Bauchi local government, would have been a dead man; he would have died with nobody to tell what actually led to his death. The good news is that he survived and is alive to tell the story of his near-death experience.

NJEMANZE waterfront has become an escape route for criminals after they dispossess passers by of valuables on roads around the area. The waterfront has also transformed into a market for Indian hemp. All kinds of crime, according to residents in the neighborhood, take place at the waterfront which until about two years ago, was home to many who apparently could not afford the high rent in habitable areas of the state capital.

When Mrs Gloria Ololade Ajibulu woke up on February 3, 2012, little did she know that a brutal attack awaited her.

THE birth of a new child is usually an occasion for celebrations but for the family of Ahmadu Didda, a peasant farmer from Dunomari village in Zaki Local Government Area of Bauchi State, the arrival of a very strange baby girl on January 13, 2012, was greeted with sorrow.

The birth of a new child is usually an occasion for celebrations but for the family of Ahmadu Didda, a peasant farmer from Dunomari village in Zaki Local Government Area of Bauchi State, the arrival of a very strange baby girl on January 13, 2012, was greeted with sorrow.

If anybody had told “Baba”,a mechanic with the LAGBUS Management Authority that death was lurking around that fateful Wednesday, January 25, 2012, he would have waved it aside as the machination of his enemies. Baba, as he was fondly called by his colleagues at LAGBUS, was killed by the stationary bus he was trying to put in order.

Just as residents of Yenegoa, the Bayelsa State capital were trying to put behind them the near catastrophe that jolted the capital city, when Tombia bridge was bombed, a more audacious attack was launched on the riverside Olugbobiri community in the Southern Ijaw council area by unknown armed gunmen who bombed a section of the country home of ex -militant leader, Mr. Africa Ukpariasa, popularly known as Gen Africa.

The Lagos State Ministry of Commerce and Industry has accredited the Bus Conductors Association of Nigeria(BCA), saying it is to legitimise their business activities in the State.

Despite the clampdown on street protests, residents of Lekki Peninsula penultimate weekend trooped out to protest what they called imposition of tolls on the Eti-Osa -Lekki express way and the hike in the school fess of Lagos State University, LASU by the State Government.